Fall River Brewing Tasting Room

Very new. They managed to make it look like something attached to a brewing venue. Wood, steel, concrete. A dozen taps or so. Beer for sale in cans, bottles, growlers. And the bombers are fetched from the cold box! Many others just stick them out on shelves. I got a fair amount of advice on the beers available. They use Square for payment. I dashed in, got some beer to go and dashed out. Very slick. It is a bit hard to find using GPS. It's in a huge shopping mall/strip. GPS dropped us beyond the physical location. Had to turn around, enter the mall and drive the large area to find it.

Located in a strip mall which is the weirdest part of the visit. Once you get past that there are some good beers to be had here. The Widowmaker Double IPA was pretty good as was the Colossus Imperial Stout.

Strip mall location was weird, but nice inside. A selection of 11 beers on an incredibly well priced flight. Good quality across the board, though the DIPAs were too malty fo my taste (the regular IPAs were great). Nice mix of styles and friendly service. Easily my favorite beer experience in Redding.

Fall River was my first stop in Redding. I was honestly not expecting much; few rates for their beers and its in a mini mall. I was pleasantly surprised. The mall location meant ample parking. Inside it really did feel like a tasting room rather than the chain brewpub I was expecting. A decent sized bar and a few tables. Coolers in back to hold cans; more on that in a bit. They had about 10 beers on tap and did offer flights of five, so I partook. Most of the beers were average at best, but I was fairly impressed with their NE IPA - Lazy Hazy. They had four of their beers in four pack 16 oz cans as well, and when I asked canning dates the guy rattled them off immediately, which was nice. They are still selling a NE APA canned in August :/, but the IPA was just a couple weeks old so I grabbed a four pack to go. Service was solid. I thought this was a perfectly respectable beer stop, and hopefully the NE IPA was not the exception in terms of future beer quality.

A little tricky to find as the address number’s circle around the mall and it’s islands. It’s next to the starbucks. so a sterile, small, mall environment, light wood & windows to cheer it up. Around 12 of their brews on tap, and a good selection of fairly priced bottles. Good guys working here. And they make fine beers..